Annual Fund Campaign; Elizabeth Stice; the Dalai Lama

Dear Members of the Waldorf School of Santa Barbara Community,

Thank you to those who have given to this year's Annual Fund Campaign.

Our goal is $80,000 with 100% participation from every parent (as well as staff and board member) at our school. Please know that this campaign is of primary importance as it helps us cover our operating cost. And please do not see giving as some abstract duty you perhaps ought to fulfill. Instead see it as an opportunity to concretely support the wellbeing of your child and her/his classmates. Please also see it as a way to support WSSB’s faculty and staff who work in service of your child and her/his classmates. Amid unprecedented inflation and a soaring cost of living, help us keep (and hire) the faculty and staff who make our great school what it is. We owe it to the children (and the world they inhabit) to expend every resource available to support WSSB's Slow Education. Please click here to support your child:

https://waldorfsantabarbara.org/annual-giving-fund

Heart to heart,
The Admin Team

PS The thought of the day is from Elizabeth Stice:
"What do young people have to look forward to? It's up to us to tell them. If we cannot come up with answers, we can't be surprised that young people are anxious."

PPS The second thought of the day is from the Dalai Lama:
"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others; I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."